Was it somewhere in Theosophy that I read that thoughts are things?
It's part of that idea that we ourselves are creating the panorama that we greet everyday when we wake up. It's as though a part of our mind is creating a dream in real time that we experience.
This is diametrically opposed to anything a serious person, grounded in science would think, but you might start noticing that you know more about what's going on than some people believe possible.
At some point in my life unbelievable things started happening to me. Or at some point I noticed them.
Highway One, in Marin County, around some small mountain or other I noticed that I was breaking for the pot holes before I noticed they were there. I just felt the urge to break.
At some point I started to pay attention to how I felt about things, and I started talking to myself about what I wanted as far as a project was concerned. I started to conceptualize the particulars, describe them to my self.
Things would begin to conform to my vision.
When I was religious, I believed God was powerful, but really, if you have a vision for what you want to show up in your life, and you have put it into words, then you have offered it up to that part of you that does the work of assembling your world.
I've been in religions that denigrate desire, but I think the idea is to work with it the way a sculptor works with clay. Because desire leads to things, which is where desire needs to be refined into something that you might enjoy. Or that you might consider aesthetically pleasing.
At least to you.
